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[leadinglady]

[ backdated to before the elves, just when the snow is really heavily piling up! SOMEBODY has just been dumped out beyond the village after her de-hiatus kidnapping, and gave up wading through the packed snow after like five minutes. so she's trying a different tactic.

wherever you are, there's suddenly a girl on an armored penguin calling out for you to WATCH OUT!! as she sleds down the slope, swerving to avoid hitting you....... and then crashing into a tree. awkward. the only way that could be even more awkward is if you'd been unlucky and stepped out from behind a tree, out-of-sight, so that you didn't even get a warning before the girl and her penguin crash straight into you instead. whooops. ]

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[shamelessness]

A-ah, I'm glad. You were going really fast, and I was worried!

[acuity]

I... don't usually travel this way. There was just quite a lot of snow all of a sudden...

[shamelessness]

Mm! It's been snowing really hard recently.

I-is, um... that your Pokémon? [Wondering if it's a Pokémon or just a... monster-thing.]

[acuity]

She is. This is empoleon... are you a trainer?

[ penguinbro clambers out of the snow and waves awkwardly, yo o/ ]

[shamelessness]

I am! N-not from your world, though! My Pokémon was born here.

[acuity]

I see. That would be this skarmory?

[ empoleon chirps a hello, yo :V ]

[shamelessness]

Mmhmm! I've had Skarmy since last February.

[Skarmory tilts her head, and lets out a bit of a chirp herself. She's only ever seen the Pokémon that are here with their trainers, so it's surprising to see other ones. What's up, birdbro?]

[acuity]

I see! She seems to be well-trained. At least, she has excellent reflexes.

[ to dodge that penguinsledding 8|b empoleon waves a flipper awkwardly like SORRY ABOUT THAT, MAN :V ]

[shamelessness]

A-ah, thank you! We've been training really hard to be good! Your Pokémon must be really good too, to be that fast!

[Skarmy holds her head high, proud of her own achievements. They even beat their rival not too long ago!]

[acuity]

... I'm not sure if that's more skill or my own bad decision-making, to be honest.

[shamelessness]

Either way, it looked cool until you crashed.

[acuity]

Well, 'cool' is the least I could ask for. But I was attempting for 'efficient', actually.

[shamelessness]

I see... are you headed back into the village?

[acuity]

I am. It's not too far away, is it.

[shamelessness]

Not at all! It's should be less than a five minute walk.

[acuity]

Is that so? Let's go, then!

[ SETTING OFF... in maybe the wrong direction, who knows. ]

[shamelessness]

W-wait! [She calls out, with a concerned look on her face. Hurriedly she tries to catch up with Platina.]

It's more to the right!

[acuity]

I-is it? I knew that.

... Well, no I didn't, but.

[ TURNS TO THE RIGHT DIRECTION o/ ]

[shamelessness]

This is much better, let's go!

[As they walk forward Skarmy is close behind. She doesn't feel like flying too much in cold weather. The altitude just makes everything colder.]

[acuity]

[ watching skarmy with a :> kind of look, she likes birds. ]

It must be nice to have a pokemon that could fly.

[shamelessness]

It is! But it can be scary, and the wind hurts if you go fast.

[acuity]

... Maybe you just need proper flight gear?

[shamelessness]

There is specific gear for flying?

[acuity]

I'd imagine so. Gloves, perhaps, and maybe a helmet to protect your face from the wind...

[shamelessness]

That might be good. What do you think, Skarmy?

[She looks over to her skarmory, but it seems to simply roll its eyes at the idea. Does that look like a smile? Probably the closest one a skarmory could make.]